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# Platform Engineer (Ref. LAB/26/10)

- **Company:** IRB Barcelona
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Proxmox, Amazon S3, Data as a Services, Shard (Database Architecture), Disaster Recovery, Distributed Data Store, Domain Name System (DNS), Monitoring of Systems, Hyper-V, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), PostgreSQL, Linux System Administration, MongoDB, Routing, OpenStack, Performance Tuning, RabbitMQ, Redis, Remote Access Technology, Systems Architecture, Virtualization Technology, Data Logging, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Firewalls (Computer Science), Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Patch Management, Apache Kafka, Vmware
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://es.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=cfddca3ef4f4169c

## About the Role

* Strong experience in Linux systems administration, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, patching, monitoring, and service management.
 * Interest in helping define long-term platform architecture, operational practices, automation standards, and security-by-design principles.
 * Solid understanding of infrastructure, networking, and systems architecture, including:
 + DNS
 + TLS certificates
 + Firewalls
 + Load balancing
 + Routing basics
 + VPNs or secure remote access
 + Storage fundamentals

 * Experience with virtualization platforms, such as VMware, Proxmox, OpenStack, Hyper-V, or similar technologies.
 * Security awareness and experience applying infrastructure security best practices, including:
 + System hardening
 + Access control
 + Privilege management
 + Patch management
 + Logging and auditability
 + Backup validation
 + Secure configuration of services

YOU MIGHT ALSO HAVE

 * Experience administering MongoDB in production environments, including:
 + Multi-node deployments, Replica sets, Sharding, Redundancy and high availability,
 * Backup and restore procedures, Performance tuning, Monitoring and alerting, Capacity
 * planning, Disaster recovery procedures
 * Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools
 * Experience with container technologies
 * Experience or interest in Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms
 * Experience with complementary data and backend technologies, such as:
 + PostgreSQL
 + Redis
 + MinIO or S3-compatible object storage
 + RabbitMQ
 + Kafka

 * Experience with monitoring and observability, including metrics, logs, alerts, dashboards, and operational documentation.
 * Experience working in on-premise, hybrid, or research infrastructure environments.
 * Experience supporting scientific, biomedical, or data-intensive platforms.

## Description

We are looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to support the technical foundation of the MD4SB project, with responsibility for infrastructure, security, reliability, and distributed data services.

The selected candidate will help design, deploy, operate, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available environments, with a strong focus on distributed database infrastructure and platform operations.

The ideal candidate combines strong operational skills with architectural thinking. We are looking for someone able to build and maintain reliable infrastructure, anticipate technical risks, automate recurring tasks, document procedures, and establish good practices for security, scalability, monitoring, and long-term maintainability.

This role is especially suited for a hands-on engineer who enjoys working close to the platform layer, understands the importance of resilient data services, and can help MD4SB grow on top of a solid, secure, and well-documented technical foundation.


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